"Even more impressive is that over 250 million of those gamers play what are defined as “core games;”  sophisticated strategy, action and role-playing games that have been the heart of the video game business for many years."

https://opengamingalliance.org/press/details/pc-gaming-alliance-releases-two-member-exclusive-reports

I suspect that number is a bit inflated tho.

People don't buy whole new PCs every year. And that is prebuilt shipments only, a lot of PC gamers build thier own.

And how many gamers keep their old "gamer" pc when they buy a new one ? It's like to take the numbers of the nes + Snes + N64 + WII + GC + Ps1 + Ps2 + Ps3 etc.  How many of these 700 millions PC can run properly a game today ?

All them can play games today. You could drag out a 15 year old PC and play games on it. And you really don't seem to understand how the PC market works. I for example have neve brought a new PC.

Can you play a game launched in 2013 with a 15 year old PC ? What is the point of this number ? It doesn't show anything about the real situation of the PC gaming industry today.  

I'm one. I haven;'t bought a physical game for years.

Also, the MS app store has games for free. So duh...

CONSOLES RULE!

*cough* - usual load of rubbish from intel based on nothing but a guess.

Whats a gamer anyway.....someone who plays minesweeper (i.e. on every windows pc) or someone who builds a custom water-cooled top spec gaming machine?

Sure lots of them. And the number in the OP is players. You are bringing in an irrelevent number of yearly prebuilt PC shipments.

Steam doesn't cover the whole market, not by a long shot. LoL is not on Steam, just as an example.

But is it enough to Game!

I'm always held back by that "GPU" of theirs. With their 3rd gen integrated graphics I can play most of last gen, TR at 20-30, and WatchDogs at like 5-10 fps.